Lobbyist bundled contributions

Lobbyist bundled contributions

The list of PACs that are established or controlled by lobbyists or others registered with Congress for lobby disclosure. Campaigns, parties and leadership PACs who received bundled contributions from these PACs may be required to disclose that bundling activity to the FEC.

Independent expenditures

This file contains "24-hour" and "48-hour" reports of independent expenditures filed during the current election cycle and for election cycles through 2010. The file contains detailed information about independent expenditures, including who was paid, the purpose of the disbursement, date and amount of the expenditure and the candidate for or against whom the expenditure was made.

Candidate summary

This file contains information for each candidate who has registered with the FEC or appears on an official state ballot for an election to the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate or U.S. President.

New statements of candidacy

This file lists all individuals who have filed a Statement of Candidacy (FEC Form 2) with the FEC to register as a candidate for federal office (U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and U.S. President) in a given election cycle.

Committees

The term committee encompasses several different political groups that receive and spend money in federal elections.

Committee summary

This file contains overall receipts and disbursements for each political committee, group or individual registered with the Federal Election Commission, along with a breakdown of overall receipts by source and totals for contributions to other committees, independent expenditures made, etc.

Leadership PACs and sponsors

Leadership PACs and sponsors

Candidates and members of Congress can create "leadership PACs" to raise funds to support other candidates for federal office. This file lists the PACs who have registered with the FEC as a leadership.

Lobbyist/registrant committees

Lobbyist/registrant committees

The list of PACs that are established or controlled by lobbyists or others registered with Congress for lobby disclosure. Campaigns, parties and leadership PACs who received bundled contributions from these PACs may be required to disclose that bundling activity to the FEC.

Requests for Additional Information (RFAIs) are sent to committees when a Campaign Finance Analyst needs additional clarification on a committee's filing or identifies an error, omission or possible prohibited activity. Search RFAIs by committee or date.

PACronyms

PACronyms, an alphabetical list of acronyms, abbreviations, initials and common names of federal political action committees (PACs), was prepared to help researchers readily identify committees when their full names are not disclosed on campaign finance reports.

The list includes the PACronym, FEC ID number, full committee name, city and state, name of sponsoring, connected, or affiliated organization, committee designation and committee type. Unless noted otherwise in the full committee name, the acronym "PAC" refers to "political action committee." The PACronym is listed in italics if the committee's PACronym is not specifically provided on the committee's Statement of Organization (FEC Form 1).

Unverified filers

Unverified filers

The FEC works to ensure all filings are accurate and complete. As part of that process, the Commission asks filers whose registration forms contain questionable information to verify their accuracy. This page lists filers that did not respond and verify their information.

Download bulk data

Downloadable bulk data files contain data from statements and reports filed with the Commission in a form that may be useful to users performing in-depth campaign finance research. The files, which were previously located on the Commission's file transfer protocol (FTP) server, can be very large because they contain transaction-level data. The update schedule of these files varies from daily to weekly. Expand each file's accordion to read more about what is contained in the file.

The committee master file contains one record for each committee registered with the Federal Election Commission. This includes federal political action committees and party committees, campaign committees for presidential, house and senate candidates, as well as groups or organizations who are spending money for or against candidates for federal office.

This file gives overall receipts and disbursements for each PAC and party committee registered with the commission, along with a breakdown of overall receipts by source and totals for contributions to other committees, independent expenditures made and other information.

The individual contributions file contains each contribution from an individual to a federal committee. It includes the ID number of the committee receiving the contribution, the name, city, state, zip code, and place of business of the contributor along with the date and amount of the contribution.

The itemized committee contributions file contains each contribution or independent expenditure made by a PAC, party committee, candidate committee, or other federal committee to a candidate during the two-year election cycle.

The itemized records (miscellaneous transactions) file contains all transactions (contributions, transfers, etc. among federal committees). It contains all data in the itemized committee contributions file plus PAC contributions to party committees, party transfers from state committee to state committee, and party transfers from national committee to state committee. This file only includes federal transfers not soft money transactions.

A paper report submitted to the Commission is a committee's official campaign finance disclosure filing for paper filers. If there are any discrepancies between the paper report and the electronic data file received from our data entry contractor, the paper report takes precedence.

More ways to explore data

Anyone can inspect and copy reports and statements filed by political committees. But the names and addresses of individual contributors may not be sold or used for commercial purposes or to solicit contributions or donations.